Pro Nashville musicians play Outlandos (video)
Posted: 05 Apr 2010 17:25Hey folks, a little backstory: As you may know, Nashville, where I live, is full of professional musicians. Session types, singer songwriters, etc. Anyway, you see some fun little side projects sometimes. One of them is called Long Players, which is a bunch of guys and gals who get together and learn a new album to perform at the Mercy Lounge once a month. (They've been doing it for years; past albums include the likes of 'Some Girls', 'Blonde on Blonde,' 'Revolver,' 'Back in Black,' 'London Calling' etc.) They do charge a cover, but the money's given to a different charity every time - this one was Doctors without Borders.
The fun thing is you really never know who you're gonna get. Guests could be the guy from Tommy Tutone, or Southside Johnny, or Adrian Belew. One of the regulars is Gary Tallent from the E Street Band; Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick, etc. I do love their standing drummer, Steve Ebe (http://www.myspace.com/steveebe) and guitarist Bill Lloyd is, like, the nicest guy on earth.
Another cool aspect of this is how good these guys are: they can play these albums very nearly note perfect, making it look easy. After they finish playing each album, they do 'the hits' by each artist. They usually mix up the lead singers, getting different people to do every song. Here are some bios of them...http://www.thelongplayers.com/bios.html
So I got some video. It's crappy, b/c I screwed up and set my camera on low resolution, and I only got a few seconds of every song (there was a cameraman there and I was trying not to get into his shots). Anyway, thought some of you might enjoy this. I gotta admit: Seeing 'Masako' and then 'Dead End Job' live really rocked. Not quite as good as the real thing, but it beat nothing by quite a bit. Plus, it was great to see 'Message' and some of the classics again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1UqFMlYa-I
ETA: Yes, that is a flight suit David Mead is wearing while singing 'Truth Hits'...dunno why he left his big brown sunglasses at home...
The fun thing is you really never know who you're gonna get. Guests could be the guy from Tommy Tutone, or Southside Johnny, or Adrian Belew. One of the regulars is Gary Tallent from the E Street Band; Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick, etc. I do love their standing drummer, Steve Ebe (http://www.myspace.com/steveebe) and guitarist Bill Lloyd is, like, the nicest guy on earth.
Another cool aspect of this is how good these guys are: they can play these albums very nearly note perfect, making it look easy. After they finish playing each album, they do 'the hits' by each artist. They usually mix up the lead singers, getting different people to do every song. Here are some bios of them...http://www.thelongplayers.com/bios.html
So I got some video. It's crappy, b/c I screwed up and set my camera on low resolution, and I only got a few seconds of every song (there was a cameraman there and I was trying not to get into his shots). Anyway, thought some of you might enjoy this. I gotta admit: Seeing 'Masako' and then 'Dead End Job' live really rocked. Not quite as good as the real thing, but it beat nothing by quite a bit. Plus, it was great to see 'Message' and some of the classics again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1UqFMlYa-I
ETA: Yes, that is a flight suit David Mead is wearing while singing 'Truth Hits'...dunno why he left his big brown sunglasses at home...